If you’re a Suns fan, and we know there are still some of you out there, you might be having a hard time watching your team play this season.

Fortunately, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament gets into full swing today and Friday, and there is extra incentive for Suns fans to tune in.

The Suns have two first-round picks at their disposal, and this is your chance to see some of their potential picks in action.

Of course, you can forget about anybody from Kentucky, unless you’re interested in their coach’s pizza commercials.

Center Nerlens Noel already was out with a torn knee ligament, and the rest of the Wildcats were eliminated — from the NIT.

However, we’ve put together a viewer’s guide to some first-round games involving players the Suns could take with their own pick high in the first round or later in the lottery should the Lakers miss the playoffs. If LA sneaks in, the Suns get Miami’s pick:

Thursday

Michigan State vs. Valparaiso, 9:15 a.m., CBS.

Spartan’s shooting guard Gary Harris is a versatile defender who could be a middle first-round pick.

Have the clicker in hand to go between Olynyk and OSU point guard Marcus Smart. Yes, the Suns drafted a point guard last year. This one is a lock-down defender. He might slip to the late first where the Suns pick if the Lakers DO make the playoffs.

Maryland vs. Denver, 4 p.m., ESPNU.

Ha! Thought we forgot the NIT? Maryland’s sophomore center Alex Len from the Ukraine is a possible first-rounder.

Michigan vs. South Dakota State, 4:15 p.m., CBS.

Wolverines point guard Trey Burke is a potential late-lottery pick.

UNLV vs. California, 4:27 p.m., tru TV.

Now you’re jumping between the NIT and two NCAA games. Vegas power forward Anthony Bennett is a possible top-three pick should Suns get lucky in lottery.

Syracuse vs. Montana, 6:57 p.m., tru TV.

Michael Carter-Williams of Syracuse is a tall, long point guard Suns probably won’t draft with Kendall Marshall backing up Goran Dragic.

Friday

Duke vs. Albany 9:15 a.m. CBS.

Blue Devils power forward Mason Plumlee might be the first senior drafted, for what that’s worth.

Indiana vs. LIU or James Madison, 1:10 p.m., TBS.

Watch this one closely. Indiana center Cody Zeller’s stock has slipped but Hoosiers shooting guard Victor Oladipo’s has skyrocketed. If the Suns are serious about becoming an athletic, defensive unit, Oladipo is their kind of guy.

And Zeller, with athleticism and a low-post game, might still be around if the Suns get the Lakers pick.

Georgetown vs. Florida Gulf Coast, 3:50 p.m., TBS.

Like Oladipo, Georgetown small forward Otto Porter can be a game-changer at the defensive end.

North Carolina vs. Villanova, 4:20 p.m., TNT.

Carolina power forward James McAdoo’s back problems might mean he slips to a second Phoenix pick, maybe even if it ends up being one from the Miami Heat instead of the Lakers.

Kansas vs. Western Kentucky, 6:50 p.m., TNT.

We can dream, right? Kansas shooting guard Ben McLemore is the best wing player in the draft and the likely first overall pick.

UCLA vs. Minnesota, 6:57 p.m., tru TV.

It’s more realistic that Bruins shooting guard Shabazz Muhammad) will be available. But he’s strictly a scorer.

As we noted above, you’re out of luck if you wanted to see center Willie Cauley-Stein or forward Alex Poythress and missed Kentucky’s first-round NIT loss, assuming they enter the draft.

Providence shooting guard Ricky Ledo reportedly may put his name in, and some have projected him as a possible middle to late first-round pick. The Friars played Charlotte in the NIT Wednesday night.

Finally, Lehigh shooting guard C.J. McCollum is another possible late-lottery or middle-first-round pick, but he played only 12 games after suffering a fractured foot that required surgery.

You’ll just have to catch him on YouTube.

Reach Young at 602-444-8271 or bob.young@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @BobYoungTHI.

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